Team

Do you want to join our team? Open positions: I am always interested in supervising highly motivated candidates with excellent resumes. I only hire postdocs and Ph.D. students, and a master’s degree is required for the latter. All openings are publicly advertised and may appear at any time of the year, triggered by when I receive new research grants. The openings are published on KTH’s website for Vacancies, and I also announce them on LinkedIn, so please feel free to connect with me there. I cannot accept any applications by email. Visiting students: I occasionally host visiting Ph.D. students for 3-12 months. The requirements are that you are self-funded, have published a journal paper during your PhD studies, and that we share a topic of joint interest. Please note that KTH is currently not accepting any students with CSC scholarships due to contractual disagreements. Applying for Post-doctoral fellowships: I can support excellent candidates in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship (Deadline: September) or a Digital Futures fellowship (Deadline: April and October) to fund their postdoc on a topic of joint interest. Note that these fellowships are very competitive, so you need to be in the top-20% of PhD graduates to stand a chance. I can help you assess your chances.

Ph.D. students (as main supervisor)

• Aditya Jolly (co-supervisors: Gabor Fodor, Vitaly Petrov)
• Emanuel Wennemo (co-supervisor: Ki Won Sung)
• Eren Berk Kama (co-supervisor: Isaac Skog)
• Amna Irshad (co-supervisors: Vitaly Petrov and Luca Sanguinetti)
• Anders Enqvist (co-supervisors: Cicek Cavdar and Özlem Tuğfe Demir)

Ph.D. students (as co-supervisor)

• Phinehas Chinthalagattu (main supervisor: Vitaly Petrov)
• Manas Kumar Mishra (main supervisor: Vitaly Petrov)
• Wenqi Zhao (main supervisor: Chong Han; co-supervisor: Vitaly Petrov)
• Peng Zhang (main supervisor: Vitaly Petrov)
• Steven Rivetti (main supervisor: Mikael Skoglund)
• Ozan Alp Topal (main supervisor: Cicek Cavdar; co-supervisor: Özlem Tuğfe Demir)
• Zhenyu Li (main supervisor: Cicek Cavdar; co-supervisor: Özlem Tuğfe Demir)

Postdoctoral researchers

• Meesam Jafri, Ph.D. 2024, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
• Zhe Wang, Ph.D. 2025, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
• Mahmoud Zaher, Ph.D. 2025, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Researchers

• Anass Sedrati, Researcher and Vice Director of SweWIN Center
• Harald Barth, Research engineer

Visiting researchers

• Chao Zhou, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Former team members

Ph.D. students (as main supervisor)

1. Yasaman Khorsandmanesh (graduated 2026, co-supervisor: Joakim Jaldén), now with KTH.
   Thesis: Transceiver Architectures for Future Wireless Systems with Hardware Constraints
2. Mahmoud Zaher (graduated 2025, co-supervisor: Marina Petrova), now with KTH.
   Thesis: Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks: Practical Aspects and Transmission Techniques for Radio Resource Optimization
3. Afsaneh Mahmoudi Benhangi (graduated 2025, co-supervisor: Ming Xiao), now with Ericsson.
   Thesis: Toward Efficient Federated Learning over Wireless Networks: Novel Frontiers in Resource Optimization
4. Morteza Esmaeili Tavana (graduated 2024, co-supervisor: Jens Zander), now with Ericsson.
   Thesis: RF Energy Harvesting for Zero-Energy Devices and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
5. Özdogan Özgecan (graduated 2022, co-supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Ericsson.
   Thesis: Signal Processing Aspects of Massive MIMO and IRS-Aided Communications
6. Amin Ghazanfari (graduated 2021, co-supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Nokia.
   Thesis: Multi-Cell Massive MIMO: Power Control and Channel Estimation
7. Daniel Verenzuela (graduated 2020, co-supervisors: Michail Matthaiou, Luca Sanguinetti), now with Sony.
   Thesis: Exploring Alternative Massive MIMO Designs: Superimposed Pilots and Mixed-ADCs
8. Trinh Van Chien (graduated 2020, co-supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now a faculty member at Hanoi University of Science and Technology.
   Thesis: Spatial Resource Allocation in Massive MIMO Communications: From Cellular to Cell-Free

Ph.D. students (as co-supervisor)

1. Maria Francis (graduated 2026, main supervisor: K.V.S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science).
   Thesis: Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Scalability, Analysis of Imperfections & Heterogeneous Network Optimization
2. Doga Gürgünoglu (graduated 2025, main supervisor: Gabor Fodor), now with Aselsan.
   Thesis: Channel Estimation and Interference Mitigation for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
3. Zakir Hussain Shaik (graduated 2024, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University), now with Nokia
   Thesis: Distributed Signal Processing for Cell-Free Massive MIMO
4. Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan (graduated 2024, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University), now with Chalmers University of Technology
   Thesis: Beyond Boundaries: Evolving Connectivity with Massive MIMO
5. Mehdi Haghshenas (graduated 2024, main supervisor Maurizio Magarini, Polytechnic University of Milan), now with Mid-Sweden University
   Thesis: Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Efficient Channel Estimation and Codebook Design
6. Ema Becirovic (graduated 2022, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Ericsson.
   Thesis: Signal Processing Aspects of Massive MIMO
7. Marcus Karlsson (graduated 2018, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).
   Thesis: Blind Massive MIMO Base Stations: Downlink Transmission and Jamming
8. Hei Victor Cheng (graduated 2018, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now a faculty member at Aarhus University.
   Thesis: Optimizing Massive MIMO: Precoder Design and Power Allocation
9. Antonios Pitarokoilis (graduated 2016, main supervisor: Erik G. Larsson), now with Ericsson.
   Thesis: Phase Noise and Wideband Transmission in Massive MIMO

Postdoctoral researchers

1. Parisa Ramezani (2022-2026), now a Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Sydney
2. Nikolaos Kolomvakis (2023-2025), now with Intracom Defense
3. Murat Babek Salman (2023-2025), now with Ericsson
4. Ferdi Kara (2024-2025), now with Ericsson
5. Alva Kosasih (2022-2024), now with Nokia
6. Junbeom Kim (2023), now a faculty member at Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
7. Özlem Tuğfe Demir (2019-2022), now a faculty member at Bilkent University, Türkiye
8. Sucharita Chakraborty (2019–2020), now a faculty member at the National Institute of Technology Silchar, India
9. Kamil Senel (2017–2019), now with Ericsson
10. Zheng Chen (2017–2019), now a faculty member at Linköping University
11. Tan Tai Do (2016), now with Ericsson
12. Julia Vinogradova (2015–2016), now with Ericsson
13. Salil Kashyap (2014–2016), now a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Visiting researchers

• Luca Antonelli (2026), University of Pisa
• Sunho Kim (2026), Seoul National University
• Baolin Chong (2025-2026), University of Science and Technology of China
• Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (2025-2026), Constructor University
• Neetu Ramanunni Rani (2024), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
• Yuhang Chen (2023-2024), Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Murat Babek Salman (2022-2023), Middle East Technical University
• Ignasi Pique Muntane (2022), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Shuaifei Chen (2021-2022), Beijing Jiaotong University
• Charles Wiame (2022), Université Catholique de Louvain
• Lorenzo Miretti (2020), Eurecom
• Andrea de Jesus Torres (2019), University of Pisa
• Hossein Akhlaghpasand (2019), Iran University of Science and Technology
• Ali Bulut Üçüncü (2019), Middle East Technical University
• Mohammed Zahid Aslam (2018), Siradel
• Shijuan Wu (2018), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Noman Akbar (2017), Australian National University
• Alessio Zappone (2015), TU Dresden
• Xueru Li (2015), Tsinghua University
• Nafiseh Shariati (2014), KTH
• Serveh Shalmashi (2014), KTH
• Maksym Girnyk (2014), KTH
• Jingya Li (2013), Chalmers